American Airlines

American Airlines is getting ready for summer travel by restoring more flights and re-opening key Admirals Club lounges. The airline is also expanding flexible policies and continuing its robust health, well-being and cleaning procedures.

American Airlines will require all customers to wear a face covering on board the aircraft starting May 11. This new requirement is part of the airline’s ongoing commitment to prioritizing customer and team member well-being in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

ften this process involves calling the airline, something that now is even more time consuming. But American Airlines is making a temporary change to let you do cancellations online, something that was only partially possible in the past,

American Airlines will receive a direct grant of $4.1 billion, and a low-interest rate loan of $1.7 billion. In addition, it expects to separately apply for a loan from the U.S. Treasury of approximately $4.75 billion.

American Airlines announced major updates to its AAdvantage program today due to the coronavirus outbreak. The airline has extended elite status through January 31, 2022, made it easier to earn status in 2020 and more.

American Airlines has extended change fee waivers for flights booked through the end of September. The airline announced Tuesday that any customer who has purchased plane tickets through September 30, 2020 can change it for free as long as travel is completed by the end of 2021.

American Airlines said on Saturday said it will implement a phased suspension of nearly all long-haul international flights starting March 16, amid reduced demand and the increasing travel restrictions due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

American has extended its offer to waive change fees for customers who purchased tickets prior to March 1 for travel through April 30. The offer is available for any of American’s fares and customers have until December 31 to rebook travel for future flights.

American will reduce international capacity for the summer peak by 10% versus the previous selling schedule, including a 55% reduction in trans-Pacific capacity. Domestic capacity in April will be reduced by 7.5% versus the current schedule.

The fee was waived for those with AAdvantage Gold, Platinum, Platinum Pro and Executive Platinum status. Now that seems to have changed, effective immediately. American Airlines has eliminated AAdvantage close-in booking fees altogether.

This email is from December 5th, some days before this all started. Might be related to some different activities, or he was just one of the first one to suffer a shutdown for abusing credit card rewards.

The partnership between Alaska Airlines and American Airlines is being watered down even more. Starting next year, it will no longer be possible to redeem one airline’s miles for travel on the other. Partnership Details What’s changing, effective March 1, 2020: You will no longer earn Mileage Plan miles on American Airlines international flights. You…

American Airlines is also offering a voucher in app for those volunteering their seats. If you like the amount offered then you can just give up your seat and take the money. No need to visit the ticket counter.